Question

what is the difference between valency and valence electrons?​

Answer 1

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Valence electron is simply the total number of electrons present in outermost shell of an atom. Valency is the number of electrons an atom looses,gains or shares with other atoms in order to get a stable configuration. ... Number of valence electrons in carbon is also four as it's outermost shell contains 4 electrons.

Answer 2

Answer:

valency means the number of electrons in the last shell

Valence electrons are the electrons of last shell below 4. if it is above for

then substran the electron number for 8